Extracts from the Records of the 



5. Trial at bar for treason — conviction — sentence, hanging, 



drawing, and quartering. 



6. Appearance and remand until issue joined. 



7. Appearance, plea, and adjournment. 



8. Arrest by sheriff, acquittal on defective indictment. 



The precept convening the Easter Sessions, 1603 ; the return of 

 the sheriff thereto ; and an indictment for murder found by the 

 grand jury at the Easter Sessions, 1605, are added as appendices. 



APPENDIX. 



Precept convening the quarter sessions, Easter, 1605 : — 



" Jacobus dei gra Angl Scoeie Franc and Hib'nie Rex fidei defensor &c Vic: 

 Wiltes. P'cipim' tibi q d non omitt' p'pter aliqua lib'tat: Com:tui quin p'clamari 

 fac p' totam ballivam tuam Gen'alem Sessionem pacis nram com: tuo cons'vand 

 apud Devizes in eodem com: die Martis p'x post elm [clausum] Pasche p'x 

 futur: tenend. Ac q d venire fac coram Justic: nTis ad pacem in dco Com: 

 cons'vand ac ad div'sa felon t'nsgr' and al malefca in eodem Com p'petrat 

 audiend and^ t'minand assign ad diem and locum p'dcos tarn xxiiij or Hb'os et 

 legles hoies de^corpore Com tuo quor~quilt heat xl s terre tentor vel reddit: per 

 ann'ad minus qm ones constabular et ballios hundredor libertat et Burg sequent 

 videlt Hundred de Bradford Calne Potterne et Cannings Malmesbury et Melksham 

 Libtatum Hundri a e ^Chippenham Bromeham and Rowde et Burgi de Devizes 

 Necnon de quoit Hundro Lib'tate et Burgo pdict xxiiij or p'bos and legles ToTes 

 ad fac and exequend ea quae tunc_and ibm ex p'te nra eis injungent' P'venire fac 

 eciam ad dcos diem et locu oies and singlos" constabular and Ballios" pdcos q d 

 tunc sint ibi hentes secum noia omn' .... * artific labor et s'vien' 

 husbandr vad contrajormam statut inde edit excessive capien Et qd omnes illi 

 qui tarn pro nobis qm p seipis v'sus .... * artific labor et s'vient 

 husdandr_aut aliquos alios aliquas querelas juxta formam et efEcm [effectum] 

 ordinaconm and statuor nror hujus regni nri Angl conqueri vel p'cequi volunt q d 

 tunc sint ibi billas and querelas illas p'seijuturi justiciamq ibm subituri si sibi 

 vid expedir Et qd tmpe tunc ibm sis vel_subyic tuus ad fac and exequend ea 

 que officio tuo incumbunt Et heas ibi noia tm constabularo ballior p'dcor qm 

 jurator p'dcor unacum hoc bre T. Edro Comit Hert£ d xxiij 0 die Aprilis Anno R. 

 n. Angl Franc and Hib'nie primo and Scocie tricesimo sexto. 



" Kent." 



Return of the sheriff to the foregoing precept — endorsed thereon :— 

 " "Virtute istius bres mihi dirci pclamari feci p totam balliam meam Generalem 

 Sessionem pacis in Com: infrascript cons'vand apud Devizes die m'ts px post elm 



* Apparently humoi, easily expanded into hvjusmodi. 



